Riveting machine



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Filed Feb. 18, 1951 6 Sheets-Sheet l Feb. 9, 1932. R HAVENER 1 ,844,120

RIVETING MACHINE Filed Feb. 18, 1931 6 Sheets-Sheet 2 Inventor flr'bh/uf' B. Hoovezwm Feb. 9, 1932. HAVENER I 1,844,120

RIjVETING MACHINE Filed Feb. 18, 1951 6 Sheets-Sheet 3 //J l l/ e9 @2 Feb. 9, 1932. A. R. HAVENER RIVETING MACHINE Fil ed Feb. 18, 1931 6 Sheets-Sheet 4 r2371, 7 y g 2 Feb. 9, 1932. A. R. HAV'ENER 1,844,120

RIVETING MACHINE Filed Feb. 18, 1931 6 Sheets-Sheet 5 [fl/126M607"; 674/7111)" 1Q. Hal/671877 Feb. 9, 1932. A. R. HAVENER RIVETING MACHINE Filed Feb. 18, 1951 6 Sheets-Sheet 6 57* @7221)?" I9. fiave raek Patented Feb. 9, 1932 UNETEB STTES ARTHUR R. HAVENER, OF WAYLAND, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T JUDSGN L. THOMSON TdAIlUFACTUR-ING CO., 015 VIALTHAM, FIASSAGHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF Iz-IASSAGI-IUSETTS BIVE'IING MACHINE Application filed February 18, 1931.

This invention relates to a riveting machine. The object of the invention is to provide a riveting machine which can feed discs and position them adjacent to one face of a piece or sheet material and which can also feed and drive rivets through said material and clinch the rivets in said discs.

The invention tnrther relates to a riveting machine which is adapted to position a piece of fiat material slotted longitudinally thereo'l and having one end forming a hook adjacent to oneface of sheet 01" material and also which is adapted to feed and position a disc adjacent to the opposite face'of said sheet material, the machine being further adapted to position a two-pronged rivet in alignment with the slot in said l100l-ll piece material and attach the said hooked piece of material to said piece of sheet material by a rivet, preferably a two-pronged rivet and clinching said rivet in the disc.

'lne present embodiment of this invention is adapted to attach a hooked piece of flat material to a motlrproof bag adjacent the opening thereof, whereby the two edges of the bag opening may be held together, the hooked member being slidable upon the rivet, whereby itis attached to one side of the bag adjacent the opening.

The invention consists in the improved mechanism hereinafter set forth in the specification and particularly in the combination and arrangement of parts set forth in the claims.

In the speci cation and in the claims the word disc is used to indicate the piece of material to which the rivet is clinched. This disc is shown as being circular, but it is to be understood that the said disc may be of any desired contour without departing from the spirit of this invention.

Referring to the drawings Fig. l is a left hand side elevation of a riveting machine embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is a right hand side elevation of the said machine.

Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the discieeding mechanism and aportion oi the rivet feeding and driving mechanism.

Serial No. 516,600. 7

Fig. 4.

Fig. 6 is a plan view of the means for V feeding discs from the magazine to the anvil and also of the device for moistening the material to which the discs are to be attached.

Fig. 7 is a detail sectional plan of the mechanism which imparts to the disc-feeding member an intermittent rotary movement.

Fig. 8 is a sectional elevation taken on line 8-8, F ig. 6, viewed in the direction of the arrows in said figure and illustrating the rivet feeding and driving mechanism and the disc-feeding and positioning mechanism and magazme. 7

Fig.9 is an enlarged section takenthrough the hooked member and the rivet which a taches it to the material and the disc in which the rivet is clinched.

F ig. 10 is a perspective View of atwopronged rivet adapted to be used in the machine of this invention.

Fig. 11 is a perspective view of the slotted hooked member.

Fig. 12 is a right hand side elevation of the holder and carrier of this invention, a portion of the driver and raceway being illustrated in connection therewith.

Fig. 13 is a rear elevation of the parts illustrated in Fig. 12, the driver and raceway being omitted.

Fig. 14 is an underneath plan of the parts illustrated in Fig. 12, the raceway and driver being omitted.

Fig. 15 is a view similar to Fig. 12 with the right hand holder plate and its supporting spring removed, a two-pronged rivet being illustrated in position and also a hooked plate.

Fig. 16 is a sectional elevation taken on the line 16l(3 looking toward the left in Fig. 12.

Fig. 17 is a view in elevation similar to Fig. 15, but with the parts in the relative positions occupied thereby at the end of the clinching of a rivet in the material, the

hooked plate being shown in connection therewith in section.

Like numerals refer to like parts throughout the several views of the drawings.

' In the drawings, Fig. 12, 20 is a holder and carrier slide. A pair of oppositely disposed spring arms 21 and 22 are fastened to the slide 20 by a bolt 23 and nut 2%. These spring arms-are offset at their lower ends and have fastened to their lower ends a pair of oppo-- sitely disposed plates 25 and 26, the plates 25 and 26 being fastened respectively to the spring arms 21 and 22 and interposed there between.

The plate 25 is provided in its lower face with a groove 27 which has a recessed or inclined wall 28. The plate 26 also has in its under face a groove 29 with a similar recessed side wall 3O. The two grooves2? and 29 combine to form a guideway 31 which is adapted to receive and hold fiat piece of material 32 which is bent at one end to form a hook 33. The said flat piece of material 32 is provided with a slot extending longitudinally thereof.

The plates 25 and 26 are spaced apart to form a chamber 35, Fig. 15, adapted to receive a two-pronged rivet 86. The inner faces of the plates 25 and 26 are recessed to form a pair of oppositely disposed inclined ridges 3'7 and 38 respectively, and these inclined ridges support the two-pronged rivet 36 upon the opposite sides of its head 39, as particularly illustrated in Fig. 16. The rivets are delivered into the chamber 35 by a raceway lO in a manner well-known to those skilled in the art.

The rivet 86 and the hooked plate 32 are driven out from between the holder plates 25 and 26 by a driver ll, Figs. 1 and 12. The hooked plate 32 is inserted in the guideway 31 as illustrated in the drawings, by hand, and the said hooked plate is positioned longitudinally thereof with relation to the rivet driver 41 by a stop 42 which is fastened by screws 43 to the plate 26.

The rivet driver 41 and the carrier 20 for the rivet are slidably mounted in the head a l of a frame 45 which is fastened to a column 16. A reciprocatory motion is imparted to the driver 41 by a driver slide 17, Fig. 1', slidably mounted in the head at and having a reciprocatory notion imparted thereto by a pair of toggle links 48 and t9. The link 19 is pivotally attached at 50 to the head as at one end thereof and at the other end thereof is pivoted to a pin 51. The link 48 is also pivoted at one end thereof to the pin. 51 and at the other end to a pin 52 in the top of the driver slide 47.

The pin 51 has a connecting rod53 at tached thereto, the said connecting rod be ing attached at its other end to an eccentric pin 54 on a rotary disc 55, which disc is fastened to a shaft 56 to which a rotary motion 56 has a pulley 63 thereon which is connected by a belt 64 to a pulley 65 fast to ash-aft 66 and to the shaft 66 is fastened agear 67 which drives other gears 68 and 69 by which rotary motion is imparted to the rotary member of a hopper 70, from which hopper the twoprongcd rivets are fed down raceway 40 to the carrier and holder 26 in a manner well known to those skilled in the art, so that the eccentric pin 54 imparts a reciprocatory motion to the driver 41 and through the driver a reciprocatory motion is imparted to the carrier 20, and the said eccentric pin 5% also has pivotally connected thereto a rod 72 which at its other end is pivotally connected at 73 to a lever 74 pivoted to the frame 15.

The lower-end of the lever 74 is pivotally attached at 7 5 to a link 76 which at its other end is pivotally attached at 77 to a lever T8 pivoted at 79 to the frame 15 and having a pin 80 fast to its lower end to which is pivotally attached a rod 81 provided with a right and left turn buckle S2. The front end of the rod 81, see Figs. 1, 2 and 7, is pivotally attached at 8 3 to a rocker plate Set which is pivotally mounted on a shaft 85. The shaft 85 is rotatably mounted in a U-shaped bracket frame 86 which is adjustably fas tened by ascrew-threaded stud 87 to the front end of an arm 88 fast to the column 16 and to the frame 4-5. The stud 87 has an adjust ing nut 89 in screw-tln'eaded engagement therewith, whereby the U-shaped bracket frame 86 may be adjusted vertically.

The shaft 85 has fastened thereto at its lower end a ratchet wheel 90 provided with teeth 91 with rectangular spaces 92 therebetween. The ratchet wheel 90 is f stened by a pin 93 to the shaft 85, and an intermittent rotary movement is imparted to the ratchet 90 and also to the shaft 85 by a pawl 9a pivotally mounted at 95 to an arm 96 on the rocker plate 84-. A spring 97 holds the pawl 941L111 engagement with the ratchet 90.

A stop pawl 98 is pivoted at 99 to the frame 86 and is held in engagement with the ratchet 90 by a spring 100, one end of which is fastened to the pawl 98 and the other end to the frame 86. The pawl 98 is provided with a tooth 101 which projects into the recesses 92 and locks the ratchet 90 against rearward movement, or against movement opposite to that of the arrow a, Fig. '7, when the rod 81 is being moved opposite to the arrow 6, Fig. 7. \Vhen the rocker plate is moved by the rod 1 in the direction opposite to the arrow a, as aforesaid, a pin 102, which is fastened thereto, engages the inclined forward end 108 of the pawl 98 and swings the pawl 98 outwardly to disengage the tooth 101 from the ratchet, so that upon reversing the movement of the rockerplate. 84, or when itis moved in the. direction of the arrow, thepawl 94 will be free to move the ratchet until .it is locked in position again by the pawl 98.

Theupper end of the shaft85, see Figs. 6 and 8, is provided with a flange 104 to which is fastened a disc-feeding member 105 which is fastened to the flange 104 by screws 106. The central portion of the disc-feeding mem-. her 105 is provided with a chamber 107 which is surrounded by a tapered wall 108, theupper edge of which is surrounded by a horizontal flange 109 forming a part ofthe disc-feeding member 105. The horizontal flange 109 l is rotatably mounted in a disc-supporting plate 110 which is fastened to the U-shaped frame 86 by screws 111. The flange 109 is pro vided with a plurality of orifices 112 wh1ch extend therethrough and are adapted to.

receive discs 113 which are fed into said orifices from a magazine 114. These discs are illustrated as circular, but they may be of other contour without departing from the spirit of the invention.

. "The magazine 114 (see Figs. 3, 4 and 5) is channel shaped and has oppositely disposed flanges 115 on the front thereof and it is positioned in a casing 116 which is fastened to the U-shaped bracket frame 86. The magazine 114 is held in the casing 116 by a channel-' shaped clamp member 117. Slidably mounted within the magazine 114 is a block 118 which is guided in vertical movement within the magazine 114 by rolls 119 and 120, theiiroll 119 bearing against the outside face of the flanges 115 of the magazine, and the roll 120 bearing against the inside faces of the flanges 115.

A handle 121 is fastened to the block 118 by which the said block can be moved upwardly or downwardly in the magazine 114 and this handle has fastened thereto a cord 122 which passes upwardly therefrom and over a roll 123 which is supported upon a bracket'124 vIfast to the frame 86. The cord 122 passes downwardly from the roll 123 around another. roll 125 which has mounted thereona block 126 and from the block 126 the cord 122 extends upwardly and is fastened at 127 to the bracket 124, so that the weight 126 will be continually pulling upwardly through thecord 122 upon the weight 118 and the weight 118 has a pusher 128011 the top thereof. in

the magazine 114 upon which rest a column of discs 113. These discs are pushed up wardly in this manner until the uppermost disc of the column passes through a hole 129 in the disc-supporting plate 110 and into whichever one of the orifices 112 may be aligned with the magazine.

A. cap plate 130 is fastened by screws-131 to the supporting plate 110 and this cap plate extends over the orifice 112 in the rotary discfeeding member 105, which may be positioned atiany one time over themagazine 114-and theisaid'cap platealso projects over the three orificesin advance of the orifice over the ma e azine. The disc-feeding member 105 .inxthe present:embodiment. of; the invention has eight. orifices 112 extending therethrough,

and an anvil 132 is positioned in'alignment withthe orifice112 which-is diagonally opposite the orifice 112 in alignment with the magazine. The anvil 132 is fastened to the upper armi86" of the bracket frame 86 and is held in position therein by a set screw 133. The

upper end of'the anvil 1321projects through. a hole 134 in-the disc-supporting plate 110 and the upper; surface. of the anvil is flush with the bottom surface of thedisc-feeding member 105, the anvil being in alignment with the rivet driver 41.

Referring to-Figs. 6, 8 and 9,135 is apiece of fiat materialrepresenting one side of a. moth-proof bag adjacent theopening thereof... 136,- illustrated-in:dotted'lines,Fig. 9, is the other side of the moth-proof bagadjacent the opening thereof. The side 135 of the bag is shown in Fig. 8 positioned to have 113iare covered with adhesive material and the under face of the side 135 of the-bag-is moistened so that when the hook 33 is attachedto the upper face of thesheet material 135 and the discis pressed against the under side of thesheet material 135 the-rivet is driven through the sheet material a and through the disc and is clinched in the disc as illustrated inFig. 9, thus the disc is not only riveted to the sheet material'135 but is also adhesively attachedthereto. The under face of the sheet material 135 isinoistened:by'feeding itby hand over a roll 137, see Figs. 3 and 6. The roll 137 is rotatably mounted upon and projects into a I container 138-which has water therein into which the roll 137 projects. The container 138. is supported upon a bracket 139 which is fastened to the -U-shaped bracket frame 86, and. as the sheet material 135 is fedinto the machine by handready to havethe hook and .disc applied thereto, it is guided by a pair When the hook and disc are being attached to the sheet material 135 forming one side 136 ofthe bag, the other side of the bag hangs down beneath the'arm 86 of the U-shaped frame 86. After the hook and disc have been fastened to theside 135 of the bag and the bag has been removed from the machine, the side136 isbrought by the user toward the side 135 in the'position shown by dotted lines, Fig. 9, and folded back on itself at 142, then the end 1430f the side 135 is folded over the side 136 and the portion 142 thereof, as shown in dotted linesat 144, Fig. '9, and the hook ,to the right of Fig. 1.

and theflat portion 32 are slid along the bag and along the rivet 36 from the position shown in full lines, Fig. 9, to that shown in dotted lines therein, thus clamping the sides 135 and 136 to each other and closing the indisc-feeding member '105.

The general operation of the mechanism hereinbefore specifically and tosome extent in general described is as follows :The operator stands in front of the machine, that is, The side 135 of the bag is fed forward by hand from left to right as viewed in Fig. 3 while the side 35 is positioned against the angle guides 140, thus the face of the side 135 of the bag will be moistened which is adjacent to the disc 113 at that time positioned over the anvil 132. The twopronged rivet 36 descends the raceway and the lowermost rivet in the raceway enters the chamber 35 between the plates 25 and 26 of the rivet holder, sliding into the chamber 35 and assuming the position illustrated in Fig. 8, the opposite edges resting upon the ridges 37 and 38 in the plates 25 and 26. The hooked plate 32 having been placed in position as illustrated in Fig. 8, the driver 41 descends and the lower end thereof passes into the chamber 35 and contacts with the top 39 of the rivet 36. The carrier slide and the holder attached thereto are then pushed down by the driver until a stop 148, Fig. 1, on

the carrier slide engages the frame of the machine, whereupon when the driver descends still further, the two-pronged rivet will be thrust downwardly in the chamber 25, the two plates 25 and 26 spreading apart to allow the said rivet to pass downwardly. The prongs of the rivet pass through the slot 34 in the hooked plate 32 and then through the material 135 and through the disc 113 positioned between the material 135 and the anvil 132. The driver continues to push the rivet downwardly until the prongs 36 are clinched by the anvil 132 into the disc 113 as illustrated in Fig. 9. During the latter part of, the descent of the driver the hooked plate 32 will be forced out from between the plates 25 and 26 and attached to the upper face of the material 135, all as illustrated in Fig. 9. The driver then moves upwardly and the carrier slide with the rivet and hooked plate holder also move upwardly being carried upwardly by a spring 149.

The driver 41 is operated by the mechanism hereinbefore described and its downward descent operates the carrier slide and holder 20 in a manner well known to those skilled. in this art and after the general manner described in United States Letters Patent to removed from the machine and is closed by the user bringing the side 136 of the bag int-o proximity with the side 135 thereof and folding the end portion 132 of the side 136 backwardly'as shown in Fig. 9 in dotted lines, then the edge portion 143 of the side 135 is folded back as shown in dotted lines at 144 and the hooked plate 32 is slid from the position illustrated in full lines Fig. 9, to that shown in dotted lines therein, thus clamping the edge portions of the two sides ofthe bag, adjacent the opening thereof, together. After the disc has been attached to the bag as hcreinbefore described, a new disc is fed into positionover the anvil 132 by a partial rotation of the disc-feeding member 105'through the pawl and ratchet mechanismhereinbefore described and illustrated 1n Fig. 7, and at the same time that the new disc is fed over the anvil another disc is picked from the top of the discs 113 in the 'magazine 114 and the operation hercinbefore described is repeated, the discs being fed one by one from the magazine into the orifices in the disc-feeding member by the by the action of the weight 126, block 118 and pusher 128.

WVhen the new disc is fed into position over the anvil, asabove set forth, the bag is fed forward by the rotation of the disc feeding member 105 and the disc 113 which hasjust been attached to the bag, and as this movement of the bag takes place the upwardly inclined projection 147 on the cap plate 130 lifts the bag and thus the disc which has just been clinched to the bag out of its orifice 112 in the disc-feeding member 105.

I claim: I

1. A riveting machine having, in combination, a rivet feeding mechanism, a rivet set ting mechanism embodying therein a driver, means to position a slotted piece of material between said driverand anvil, ananvil in alignment with said driver, and arotary discfeeding member adapted to position a disc between said anvil and driver and spaced apart from said slotted piece of material, whereby said disc may be riveted to one face of a piece of material interposed between said anvil and driver and said slotted piece of material riveted to the other face thereof.

2. A riveting machine having, in combimechanism adapted to operate said rivet to said carrier, a rivet driving mechanism embodying therein a driver, an anvil in alignment with said driver, means to positlon a slotted piece of material. on said rivet carrier between said driver and anvil, and

a rotary disc-feeding member adapted to position a. disc between said anvil and driver and spaced apart from said slotted piece of .material, whereby said disc may be riveted to one face of a piece of material. interposed between said anvil and driver and said slotted piece ofmaterial riveted to the other'face thereof.

4. .A riveting machme having in combination, a rivet feeding-mechanism, a rivet setting zmechanism embodying therein a driver, an anvil in alignment with said driver, means to position a slotted piece of mate rial between said driver and anvil, a rotary disc-feeding member. adapted to position a disc with adhesive material on one face thereof between said anvil and driver and spaced apart from said slotted. piece of material, and means to moisten the face of sheet material adjacent the adhesive face of said disc, whereby said disc may be riveted and adliesively attached to one face of a piece of material interposed between said anvil and driver and said slotted piece of material riveted to the other face thereof.

I A riveting machine having, in combination, a rivet feeding. mechanism, a rivet setting mechanism embodying therein a driver, ,an'anvil in alignment with said driver, means to position a slotted piece of material between said driver and anvil, a rotary discfeeding member adapted to position a disc between said anvil and driver and spaced apart from said slotted piece of material, and

means to feed a disc to-said rotary disc-feeding member, whereby said disc may be rivetc d to one face of a piece of material interposed between said anvil and driver and said slotted piece of material riveted to the other face thereof.

6. A riveting machine having, in combination, a rivet feeding mechanism, a rivet setting mechanism embodying therein a driver, an anvil in alignment with said d; iver, means to position a slotted piece of material between said driver and anvil, a'rotary disc-feeding member provided with a plurality of concenvtric recesses therein, each adapted to receive :material adjacent'to that :face of said disc,

a disc, and mechanism to-impart an intermittent rotary motion to said disc feeding member to intermittently position said discs between said anvil and idrivergand'spaced apart from said slottedpi ce ofinaterial whereby said discs may be rivetedvto on'e faceof sheet material interposedbetween said anvil and driver and said slotted'piece of. material riveted to the other face thereof. -7. A riveting machine having, in-combination, a rivet feeding mechanism, a rivet setting mechanism embodying therein a driver,

an anvil in alignment with said driver, means 'to position a slotted piece of vmaterlal between said driver and anvil, a rotary ,disc-feeding member provided with a: plurality: of'concentric recesses therein each adaptedtorecei-ve ztCllSC with adhesive materialon one face thereof, means: to i moisten theface of. :shee.t

with the adhesive material thereon, mechanism to impart an intermittent rotary motion to said disc feeding member to intermittently position said discs betWeen said' aIl'Vllz'alltl driver and spaced l-Pitlll'ifIfOlll said slotted piece of material, whereby said'discs may-be riveted and adhesively attachedto oneifa'ce of'said sheet material interposed between-said anvil and driver and :sai'dslotted :pieceof material riveted to the other facethereof.

8. A riveting machine having, in combination, a rivet feeding mechanism, a rivet setting mechanism embodying therein a driver, an anvil inalignment with said driver, means to position a slotted piece of material between. said driver and anvil, arotarv disc-feeding memberprovided with a plurality of concentric recesses therein,- each adapted to receive a disc, mechanism to impart an intermittent rotary motion tosaid disc-feeding member to intermittently position said discs between said anvil and driver and spaced apart from said slotted piece of material, whereby said discs may be riveted to one face of sheet material interposed betweensaidanvil and driver g 10 tion said discs between said anviland driver.'2;125 and spaced apart from sald slotted piecezof material, whereby said discs may-be riveted to one face of sheet material interposedrbetween said anvil and driver and-said slotted piece of material rivetedto the other face .130

thereof, a magazine adapted to contain a column of discs positioned beneath said discfeeding member equidistant with said orifices from the center of sa d disc-feeding member, and means to force said discs one by one into said orifices as the orifices are intermittently brought into alignment with said magazine.

10. A riveting machine having, in combination, a rivet feeding mechanism, a rivet setting mechanism embodying therein a driver, an anvil in alignment with said driver, means to position a slotted piece of material between said driver and anvil, a rotary disc-feeding member provided with a plurality of concentric orifices therein, each adapted to receive a disc, mechanism to impart an intermittent rotary motion to said disc-feeding member to intermittently position said discs between said anvll and ClIlVQl and spaced apart from said slotted piece of material, whereby said discs may be riveted to one face of sheet material interposed between said anvil and driver and said slotted piece of material riveted to the other face thereof, a magazine adapted to contain a column of discs positioned beneath said disefeeding member equidistant with said orifices from the center of said disc-feeding member, means to force'said discs one by one into said orifices as the orifices are intermittently brought into alignment with said magazine, and a disc supporting plate positioned beneath said rotary discfeeding member'and adapted to support discs in said disc-feeding member orifices as they are being fed from the magazine to the anvil. p

11. A rivet-mg machine having, 1n eombination, a rivet feedmg'mechamsm, a rivet setting mechanism embodying therein a driver, an anvil in alignment with said driver, means to position a slottedpiece of material between said driver and anvil, a

fices from the center of said disc-feeding member, means toforee said discs one by one into said orifices as the orifices are intermit- Gently brought into alignment with said 5 magazine, and a disc-supporting plate pos1 tioned beneath said rotary disc-feeding member and provided with concentric orifices in allgnment with said anvil and magazine and adapted to support discs in said disc-feeding member or1fices-as they are being fed from the magazine to the anvil.

12. A riveting machine having, in combination, a rivet feeding mechanism, a rivet setting mechanism embodying therein a driver, an anvil in alignment with said driver, means to position a slotted piece of material between said driver and anvil, a rotary disc-feeding member provided with a plurality of concentric orifices therein, each adapted to receive a disc, mechanism to impart an intermittent rotary motion to said discfeeding member to intermittently position said discs between said anvil and driver and spaced apart from said slotted piece of material, whereby said discs may be riveted to one face of sh et material interposed between said anvil and driver and said slotted piece of material riveted to the other face thereof, a magazine adapted to contain a column of discs positioned beneath said discfeeding member equidistant with said orifices from the center of said disc-feeding member, means to force said discs one by one into said orifices as the orifices are intermittently brought into alignment with said nagazine, and a cap plate extending over said disc-feeding member to hold the discs in said orifices while they are being fed from the magazine to the anvil.

13. A riveting machine having, in combination, a slide, a holder embodying a pair of oppositely disposed plates spring mounted on said slide and recessed to receive a piece of flat material with a slot extending longitudinally thereof, said holder having a chamber between said plates adapted to receive and position a two-pronged rivet therein with said prongs in alignment with said slot, a driver in alignment with said chamber, an anvil in alignment with said driver, means to position a disc between said anvil and driver, and mechanism to impart a reciprocatory motion to said driver and slide, whereby said slotted piece of material may be fastened by said rivet to one face of a piece of material interposed between said anvil and slide and said disc riveted to the other face thereof.

14. A riveting machine having, in combination, a slide, a holder embodying a pair of oppositely disposed plates spring mounted on said slide and recessed to receive a piece of flat material with a slot extending longitudinally thereof, said holder having a chamber between said plates adapted to receive and position a two-pronged rivet therein with said prongs in alignment with said slot, a driver in alignment with said chamber, an anvil in alignment with said driver, a rotary disc-feeding member adapted to position a disc between said anvil and driver, and mechanism to impart a reciprocatory motion to said driver and slide, whereby said slotted piece of material may be fastened by said rivet to one face of a piece of material interposed between said anvil and slide and said disc riveted to the other face thereof.

15. A riveting machine having, in combination, a slide, a holder embodying a pair of oppositely disposed plates spring mounted on said slide and recessed to receive a piece of flat material with a slot extending longitudinally thereof, said holder having achamber between said plat-es adapted to receive and position two-pronged rivet therein with said prongs in alignment with said slot, driver in alignment with said chamber, an anvil in alignment with said driver, a rotary discfeeding member adapted to position a disc with adhesive on one face thereof between said anvil and driver, means to moisten the face of a piece of sheet material positioned adjacent the adhesive face'of said disc, mechanism to impart an intermittent rotary moti on to said rotary disc-feeding member, and mechanism to impart a reciprocatory motion to said driver and slide, whereby said slotted piece of material may be fastened by said rivet to one face of said sheet material and said disc riveted and adhesively attached to the other face thereof.

16. A riveting machine having, in combination, a slide, a holder and carrier embodying a pair of oppositely disposed spring arms fast to said slide and spaced apart, a pair of oppositely disposed plates fast to the lower ends of said arms, the under faces of saidv plates each being provided with a groove, which grooves combine to form a gnideway adapted to receive and hold a flat piece of material with a slot extending longitudinally thereof, and a stop at one end of said guideway adapted toposition said flat piece of material on said holder and carrier, said holder and carrier having a chamber between said plates adapted to receive and position a two-pronged rivet therein with said prongs in alignment with said slot, a driver in alignment with said chamber, an anvil in alignment with said driver, rotary disc-feeding member adapted to position a disc between said anvil and driver, and mechanism to im part a reciprocatory motion to said driver and slide, whereby said slotted piece of material may be fastened by said rivet to one face of a piece of material interposed between said anvil and slide and said disc riveted to the other face thereof.

17. A riveting machine having, in combination, a slide, a holder embodying a pair of oppositely disposed plates spring mounted on said slide and recessed to receive a piece. of flat material with a slot extending longitndin ally thereof, said holder having achamber between said plates adapted to receive and position a two-pronged rivet therein with said prongs in alignment with said slot, a driver in alignment with said chamber, an anmy hand.

ARTHUR R. HAVENER. 

